Friday, May 14, 2010

Bayonetta Creator Wants To Make a Mega Man Game

Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya and creator of Bayonetta (and the likes of Okami, Viewtiful Joe) would really like to create a Mega Man game, this according to a series of tweets between Kamiya and Capcom's Shu Takumi.

Kamiya's desire to have a hand in the Mega Man series stems back to his high school days in which he participated in one of Capcom's Robot Master design contests. His submissions, Planet Man and Aqua Man (no relation to MM8's Aqua Man) didn't win, unfortunately. Now a seasoned game designer, Kamiya has hopes of developing a Rockman game of his very own.

Making a Mega Man game for Capcom isn't his only dream project. Weeks earlier, Kamiya expressed an interest in developing a Star Fox game for Nintendo, preferably, be forced to make one...at gunpoint.

Anyway he wants to make a Star Fox game more probably but anyway he got a better chance with Capcom since he gave the idea that started Okami and entered many Mega Man boss drawing contest as a teenager.

But this might be interesting.A Bayonetta styled Mega Man game or series.That was the type of Mega Man game I was hoping for..Thank u God for answering my Prayers.

I really do hope he does make his own Mega Man series by Sega for Capcom like Zero and ZX from Inti.

The solution is very simple, and I firmly believe this is how Capcom should tackle the next core installment of the X Series more so than Classic. I am positive everyone has seen all there is to see about Metroid Other M, correct? In my opinion I believe thats how the next MegaMan game should be. It's what X7 tried to do but didnt succeed so perfectly. Other M has different elements of 3D, Sidescrolling, FPS and then some. Reason I say this is also because Team Ninja of Ninja Gaiden fame is helping Nintendo. In Other M you can clearly see the Hack n Slash feel. If this guy gets on board with his knowledge of Hack n Slash mechanics, there would be no shame in making competition to Other M. The entire industry borrowed the Over-the-Shoulder mechanic Resident Evil 4 popularized. Zero would work so well with those elements while X and Axl could demonstrate serious gunplay. C'mon, lets make it happen!

Interesting that you mention him as "Bayonetta creator", when in fact he's much more well-renowned for Okami, one of the best games I've ever played. Imagine the creator of Okami making a Mega Man game. That would be amazing! It's not like there's much else going on with Mega Man at the moment, and if they did do something else (like *sigh* another Star Force game), it would probably be seen as quite stale.

As someone who got into the series through games like Mega Man 7 and X5, I'm going to have to disagree with that. I liked Mega Man 9, and thought it was very fun and everything, but at the same time, it was a bit of a disappointment. Mega Man 10, on the other hand, I thought it was a major improvement, and I found myself less disappointed with it.

But I'd feel fine with him having Starfox if he went a bit more in-depth about why the gameplay was so good. He already praises SF64 enough for me to trust him (and rightfully so, it's the top game on my list).